On 2010-01-29 12:04:29 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > If you feel strongly about this, then I suggest that you > file a bug report against the net-tools package and complain > that ifconfig should be moved from /sbin to /bin (or some other > directory in a normal user's path). As you know, > "ifconfig -a", issued verbatim by a normal user on a plain vanilla > Debian system, does not work unless the user has modified > his PATH variable.
"/sbin/ifconfig -a" will work, without needing to become root. That would have been a better advice than asking the user to run the command as root. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
